Kidney Surgery

I woke up early for the first time in a long time, good because I must wake up even earlier tomorrow. Tomorrow is my kidney surgery, or, more technically, my extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. 

Since first hearing that I had a 11mm kidney stone I thought, "oh they will just do the thing where they break it up with sound waves." And when the doctor called it a surgery I thought, "surely it's more of a 'procedure' than a 'surgery'." Now I have had time to marinate and web search and anticipate, I've come around fully to the "I am about to have surgery on my right kidney" camp.

I have been told by my mom that I will pee actual blood rather than the trace amounts that have been continually detected since this hunk of cement was discovered. I have been informed the kidney will be traumatized and I will need lots of rest. I discovered that, because of 4/3(pie)r cubed, my previous 5mm stone is nothing compared to an 11mm stone. All the fragments I will have to pass, this aftermath, now looms literally at the next sunrise and I am a tad anxious. 

Wish me luck.

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